People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday ...

With 13 ...

With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives ...

At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent ...

The East African inter-government Development Agency (IGAD) has said it has agreed with the African Union to coordinate efforts for reaching peace in troubled areas of the continent’s eastern regions, ...

A total of 414 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 1 and 7 June, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has announced, bringing to 9,999 the total number of migrants br ...

Survivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have recounted how they were forced off their boat far from the coast of Djibouti and left to swim for their lives ...

Alarmed by intensifying violence in the greater Kordofan region of Sudan and the growing humanitarian impact of the fighting, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wedn ...

Nearly all the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for persons with disabilities are off track the UN deputy chief said on Tuesday, as people from around the world gathered for the largest a ...

Violence by jihadist groups has displaced nearly 230,000 people in Burkina Faso since the beginning of the year, humanitarian agencies have warned, noting that the security situation continues to ...

Nearly one million refugees from eight countries with high asylum recognition rates were granted entry permits to 38 destination countries between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from UN refu ...

The ocean is under siege – and greed is to blame ...